Re: How does this change anything?

how does smack change anything?

- it's missing 3D trackers making camera solves a round trip to somewhere, so much for "VXF intensive projects" and "keeping it in the same system" seems a bit of a joke really

- it's missing a worakable gradeing toolset.. render every change to disk to see it... no masks in context... makeing the "keeping it in the same system" even more of a joke...

Round trips to Resolve sound like a good idea, but that means a second machine as they don't share I/O cards.. so maybe round trips to SpeedGrade or Scratch are the options, add yet more cash to the table.

You want a system that is whole and complete? look at DS, Mystika, Pablo, or fluster.

Don't mind round tripping? PP+AE+SpeedGrade, a real gradeing toolset, and 3D trackers...
-OR-
Media Composer+Digital Fusion+Baselight... all those run on the same timeline - that's bringing best in class tools to the table.. Baselight is reported to be running real time in MC... DF comps are lighting fast.. all are far, far, FAAAAAR better comp & grade tools than smack. and more interactive.

Even at 3.5K smack it's got a fair ways to go to come close to any of the above...

How funny the jokes is depends who the joke is on i guess...